Breaking News: Full Tilt Poker Goes Green! Not nearly as exciting as you hope.

#1 17th April 2012, 4:53 PM

http://www.pokernewsreport.com/break...oes-green-8328

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Breaking News: Full Tilt Poker Goes Green!

By: David / April 17, 2012
For the first time since the Alderney Gambling Control Commission withdrew Full Tilt Poker´s operating license in June 2011, the System Status on the Full Tilt Poker web site turned to green with the message “all systems are currently operational”.

Most players who tried logging into their accounts were greeted with a screen advising them that they were trying to connect (but never did), however some players claimed that they had been asked to upgrade their software from the pre-Black Friday version (4.39.7) to version 4.45.10 and accept revised terms and conditions.

Testing for a Re-Launch?

Nobody actually got into their accounts or was allowed to access the “games in progress” although new player and customer support avatars were noticed on the site. Speculation was rife that the new owners of Full Tilt Poker were testing the latest versions of the software for a re-launch of Full Tilt Poker in the near future and was supported by the translation of a Portuguese forum entry on the 2+2 poker forums which claimed to be from somebody hired in Dublin by Pocket Kings to provide customer support for Portuguese speaking clients.

All Coming Together for May – Maybe

News that Full Tilt Poker was hiring was brought to the attention of the media at the beginning of the month and although the jobs are initially available on a three month contract the fact that the company is hiring customer support representatives rather than software designers has led many people to believe that a relaunch of Full Tilt Poker is imminent. An announcement last week that a subsidiary of the Full Tilt Poker Group – Orinic Limited – has applied to the AGCC for a Class 2 licence to provide online gaming has also led industry insiders to believe that the site could be open for business as soon as May, although no hint of a schedule has been released from Groupe Bernard Tapie or any of the company´s associates.

Here is a screenshot of the homepage of Full Tilt Poker, where you can see the status “Online Now” with 411 active players, at 14,451 tables and 4 tournaments:

We have some hope now

#2 17th April 2012, 5:22 PM

Yeeeee. Finally. I love FT. I love the software. I do not care what happened. Hope they will be online shortly.
Hope my money are still in the account
No more cra..ppy ipoker games.

#3 17th April 2012, 6:23 PM

does anyone know how withdrawal goes from Full tilt poker, is there any special demands etc, am from Serbia btw...?

#4 17th April 2012, 6:25 PM

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Originally Posted by sagiPOTM

does anyone know how withdrawal goes from Full tilt poker, is there any special demands etc, am from Serbia btw...?

Nowhere even close to getting this hashed out yet. Trust me when they figure out how they're going to handle this there will be a massive upheaval of happiness on the internet that will be hard to miss.

#5 17th April 2012, 6:34 PM

Always amazing how many folks just can't wait to be at the head of the Ponzi Line Dance ...

#6 17th April 2012, 8:35 PM

on the FT screen shot provided, I did notice some peculiar things, like Ferguson still gracing the page, and 411 players playing something like 14K tables????

Bored employees playing 30 Rush tables at once?

#7 17th April 2012, 8:37 PM

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Originally Posted by nevadanick

Always amazing how many folks just can't wait to be at the head of the Ponzi Line Dance ...

Degens gonna degen

#8 17th April 2012, 8:48 PM

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Originally Posted by nevadanick

Always amazing how many folks just can't wait to be at the head of the Ponzi Line Dance ...

Odds of this happening twice are suppppppppppper small. They'd have to be pretty big idiots to try something within the same company as it gets re-unveiled. Tapie is doing this right so far, I don't see a reason for things to go south.

#9 17th April 2012, 9:30 PM

1st thought .... wtf ???? 2nd thought .... I'll believe it when I see it. And btw where the fu** is my money ??? Sure hope they open back up and give us access to or at least our $$$ back. (for those of us in the US)

#10 17th April 2012, 9:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dj11

on the FT screen shot provided, I did notice some peculiar things, like Ferguson still gracing the page, and 411 players playing something like 14K tables????

Bored employees playing 30 Rush tables at once?

They could be bots. In fact i am sure they are not players. But the screenshot of the site is not the thing that gives me hope. The fact that for the first time after almost a year the poker server responded witch means there is someone there working on something. Hope will here more good news untill May.

#11 17th April 2012, 9:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dwbrown7680

Odds of this happening twice are suppppppppppper small. They'd have to be pretty big idiots to try something within the same company as it gets re-unveiled. Tapie is doing this right so far, I don't see a reason for things to go south.

There are different ppl man. Hope there will be 10 more calm years untill a next black friday. And i think there will be a new chapter for "Banroll Management" :widthraw all, keep only what you play in a day.

#12 17th April 2012, 10:07 PM

Let's hope they come back, and with healthy accounts...
I think I still have some dollars there and some points to waste too lol

#13 17th April 2012, 11:09 PM

Job listings in Dublin for the company's headquarters.

& this >
The site has registered two new subsidiaries in Malta. Malta Financial Services Registry of Companies listed two companies registered on April 11, 2012 - "FullTilt Holding Ltd." & "New FullTilt LTD."

#14 17th April 2012, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by poker d player

1st thought .... wtf ???? 2nd thought .... I'll believe it when I see it. And btw where the fu** is my money ??? Sure hope they open back up and give us access to or at least our $$$ back. (for those of us in the US)

Have you been following any of the news over the past year? They're not opening back up in the US & they are not paying out to US players (there's a deal in works where DoJ is paying out to FTP's US customers).

#15 18th April 2012, 10:20 AM

Well this news does nothing for US players, it really sucks cause there is one part of the software I started to like and that was the rush poker, and if they are not paying out to US customers and the DOJ is working on a deal to get us our money, screw that I only had 20 bucks in there, I could just imagine the hoops you will have to go through to get your money from the DOJ, forget that, they can keep it.

#16 18th April 2012, 6:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Madness_does

Well this news does nothing for US players, it really sucks cause there is one part of the software I started to like and that was the rush poker, and if they are not paying out to US customers and the DOJ is working on a deal to get us our money, screw that I only had 20 bucks in there, I could just imagine the hoops you will have to go through to get your money from the DOJ, forget that, they can keep it.

Yup DOJ will make a good profit from it.

If there were any justice in the department they would return that profit to the rest of the world players who have been deprived of their riteful money since they shutout these perfectly legal players and deprived them access to their accounts.

#17 18th April 2012, 7:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Madness_does

Well this news does nothing for US players, it really sucks cause there is one part of the software I started to like and that was the rush poker, and if they are not paying out to US customers and the DOJ is working on a deal to get us our money, screw that I only had 20 bucks in there, I could just imagine the hoops you will have to go through to get your money from the DOJ, forget that, they can keep it.

Yeah well there are a lot of us with more the a few bucks at stake here and **** no the DOJ can NOT keep my money.

#18 18th April 2012, 7:05 PM

Be nice if the money would still be in my account. Still won't probably play there, though, after all the bs.

#19 18th April 2012, 7:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Chemist

Yup DOJ will make a good profit from it.

If there were any justice in the department they would return that profit to the rest of the world players who have been deprived of their riteful money since they shutout these perfectly legal players and deprived them access to their accounts.

That wasn't the DOJ that did that. That was FTP. They stole your $$s. The DOJ frozen assets are basically all US player dollars. FTP was cooking the books and the DOJ shutdown exposed that but the blame for RoW player funds being gone lies solely with FTP.

#20 18th April 2012, 9:16 PM

Not sure, but it seems to me that the DOJ would only have control of money that was in transit to US players on BF.

I for instance had money at FT but it was wherever FT had it stashed, and I would guess it was not on US soil.

The DOJ needs to release all the money back to FT so that FT can do the paperwork, and get me my money back.

#21 18th April 2012, 9:22 PM

Cant wait for FT to open back up, as long as I still have my flat RB! Can't even remember my affiliate though tbh (Was a pretty common one fwiw, any ideas??)

With a new company running it I would have no hesitation getting my money back on there, as long as a few 10's of K's of other people had the same attitude!

EDIT: First thing i'll be doing is grinding out ftps for a FTP bathrobe, totally gutted I didnt get my hands on one of them!

#22 18th April 2012, 9:25 PM

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Originally Posted by dj11

Not sure, but it seems to me that the DOJ would only have control of money that was in transit to US players on BF.

I for instance had money at FT but it was wherever FT had it stashed, and I would guess it was not on US soil.

The DOJ needs to release all the money back to FT so that FT can do the paperwork, and get me my money back.

Bolded is never going to happen.

#23 18th April 2012, 9:27 PM

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Originally Posted by orangepeeleo

Cant wait for FT to open back up, as long as I still have my flat RB! Can't even remember my affiliate though tbh (Was a pretty common one fwiw, any ideas??)

With a new company running it I would have no hesitation getting my money back on there, as long as a few 10's of K's of other people had the same attitude!

EDIT: First thing i'll be doing is grinding out ftps for a FTP bathrobe, totally gutted I didnt get my hands on one of them!

There is talk that there will be no more RB at all if/when they reopen. The rumor is that they'll offer lossback (giving losing players a % of their losses back each month). The only thing they'll have for the winning players is losing players with more money.

If true or not who knows but that's the speculation anyway. Was your RB provider rbpros???

#24 18th April 2012, 9:40 PM

Think it could have been, i'd imagine theyd have to offer some sort of reward program for regs, ironman and RB was much better for me than vpps/fpps.

We'll see, still cant wait til its back, bit of competition for pokerstars won't hurt.

#25 18th April 2012, 9:43 PM

The argument could be made that if the DOJ didn't grab all the $ from the payment processors, that FTP wouldn't have been in the trouble it was in and would have had enough funds (or at least more funds) to cover players accounts. FTP was letting players play with funds they never collected.

I'm not justifying or apologizing for the gross mis-management of FTP or saying that not having players funds segregrated is forgiveable, but I'm not giving the DOJ a pass either.

#26 18th April 2012, 9:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Charade You Are

The argument could be made that if the DOJ didn't grab all the $ from the payment processors, that FTP wouldn't have been in the trouble it was in and would have had enough funds (or at least more funds) to cover players accounts. FTP was letting players play with funds they never collected.

I'm not justifying or apologizing for the gross mis-management of FTP or saying that not having players funds segregrated is forgiveable, but I'm not giving the DOJ a pass either.

DOJ just sped up the downfall imo. Don't get me wrong I think they're scum sucking asshats for shutting it down for US players but they're not the reason why RoW players don't have their $$s right now.

#27 19th April 2012, 12:36 PM

I'll believe it when I get my re-invite email showing my unchanged dollar balance. I've come to trust no one in this business. Way too many grey areas that are difficult if not impossible to regulate and monitor. If and when the US gov. steps in, there may be some sense of regualtion amongst players. But think of it, we'd not only have to worry about cheating cardroom practices, we would be at the mercy of our own Gov. who would have unchecked authority. Scary.

#28 19th April 2012, 12:55 PM

I'm only a rec/fun player, but I had built a BR of $267+
on FT from zero.
I have to say that FT was the best online poker experience by far.
Their software was miles ahead of any other site I have played on since BF , especially when you include the FT Academy for learning the game.
I hope it re-opens soon , I will be back there in an instant.

#29 19th April 2012, 6:56 PM

http://www.pokernewsreport.com/agcc-...plication-8383

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The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has revealed details of a public hearing that will be held early next month into the application made by Full Tilt Poker company Orinic Limited for a new licence.

The Full Tilt subsidiary applied for the licence recently and now the AGCC have responded by setting up a hearing that will allow for oral submissions at the Braye Beach Hotel in Alderney on Thursday, May 3, at 14:00 local time.

While this might not seem too significant in itself, this licence application could well herald Full Tilt’s return to the online poker scene, particularly following so soon after the recent reports that the Dublin-based Pocket Kings Limited – the marketing and technology division of the beleaguered poker room – had placed adverts for jobs on Irish employment website jobs.ie.

As everyone must know by now, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) shut down numerous poker sites – including Absolute Poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt – when money laundering allegations, bank fraud and illegal gambling came to light on Black Friday – or April 15 – last year.

Orinic Limited Licence Was Only Suspended

Orinic was, of course, caught up in the troubles surrounding Full Tilt and had their licence suspended – but not revoked as they were not trading at that point – by the AGCC at the same time as the commission withdrew Full Tilt’s licences last year.

Could this be good news for Full Tilt’s frustrated customers? Let’s hope so as it is believed that as much as $440 million is still owed to them. Certainly, it does appear to be a step in the right direction, particularly when Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) seem to be so close to completing the deal with the DoJ.

The full public hearing announcement from the AGCC stated: “In the matter of an application by Orinic Limited for a Category 2 eGambling licence, TAKE NOTICE that the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, pursuant to Section 4 of the Alderney eGambling Ordinance, 2009 and Regulation 23 of the Alderney eGambling Regulations, 2009, will hold a public hearing at which oral representations may be made.

“This hearing will take place at 2.00pm on Thursday 3rd May, 2012 at the Braye Beach Hotel, Alderney.”

It seems to be getting better everyday

#30 19th April 2012, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by swingro

They could be bots. In fact i am sure they are not players. But the screenshot of the site is not the thing that gives me hope. The fact that for the first time after almost a year the poker server responded witch means there is someone there working on something. Hope will here more good news untill May.

The 411 player screenshot is part of testing the site -- There are no players playing right now as the site and software are not up.

#31 20th April 2012, 7:45 AM

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Originally Posted by WVHillbilly

There is talk that there will be no more RB at all if/when they reopen. The rumor is that they'll offer lossback (giving losing players a % of their losses back each month). The only thing they'll have for the winning players is losing players with more money.

If true or not who knows but that's the speculation anyway. Was your RB provider rbpros???

bleeeech if true. But I can't really see them completely turning their backs on all the grinders -- perhaps a restructured black card / VIP system that at least is somewhat competitive with PokerStars. Any rumors floating about what will happen with accrued FTPs (points)?

Ugh, it still burns me how they went offline last June, literally just a few days before summer ironman bonus kicked in. I had it all set up and timed with other promos such that I would have around 70% rakeback for three months.

I guess if/when they reopen we can at least look forward to some decent "welcome back" promos.

#32 21st April 2012, 8:08 PM

well i hope full tilt comes back. i have been out of poker for a long time until late. i finally found a few poker sites that i can play in freerolls to start a bankroll. i will be glad to see full tilt. it was and if it comes back will still be my favorite site. let us pray that full tilt comes back lol. :-)

#33 21st April 2012, 9:14 PM

It looks like that day is close. Hope they wiill allow our 2 time weekly freerolls again. I did not played tournaments too much since it closed. And when i played i played like a fish.

#34 21st April 2012, 9:53 PM

Be nice to play there again.

#35 23rd April 2012, 10:54 PM

Even if they come back, they won't allow US players and I wouldn't play there again anyways. I just want my money.

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